Marilisa Xenogiannakopoulou was born in Athens in 1963 and is an attorney-at-law. A graduate of the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, she pursued postgraduate studies in Public Law – DEA at the Sorbonne University – Paris I. For several years she was an official of the European institutions in Brussels, at the European Parliament, the Secretariat of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament and the European Commission.
Marilisa Xenogiannakopoulou participated actively in the students’ movement, in the Youth of PASOK and in PASOK. She has served as Member of the European Parliament (2004-2007), Member of the Greek Parliament for the 2nd Parliamentary Constituency of Athens (2007-2012), Secretary of the National Council of PASOK (2005-2006) and member of PASOK’s Political Council (2006-2009), Minister of Health (2009-2010) and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, responsible for European Affairs (2010-2012). In February 2012 she expressed her political disagreement and resigned from the Coalition Government and from PASOK.
Marilisa Xenogiannakopoulou has served as Minister of Administrative Reconstruction in the government of Alexis Tsipras – SYRIZA (August 2018 – July 2019). She was elected Member of the Greek Parliament with SYRIZA in the 7th of July 2019 elections for the B1’North Sector of Athens Parliamentary Constituency, and has been appointed Parliamentary Spokesperson. She is member of the Parliamentary Standing Committees on “National Defense and Foreign Affairs” and “Cultural and Educational Affairs” as well as of the “Committee for the Constitutional Revision”.
